Job Management Partner 1/Software Distribution Administrator's Guide Volume 1

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7.5.1 Sending messages

To send a message to clients, you execute the Report message job.

To send a message to clients:

  1. Open the Define New Job window.
    For details about how to open the Define New Job window, see 8.2.1 Displaying the Define New Job dialog box.
  2. Select Report message and click the OK button.
    The Create Job dialog box opens.
  3. On the Destination page, specify the client to which the message is to be sent as the destination.
    For details about how to specify a destination, see 8.2.4 Setting up the Destination page.
  4. On the Message Notification page, specify the message to be sent to the client.
    On the Message Notification page, specify the message title, message file format, and text.
    For details about how to set up the Message Notification page, see 8.2.7 Setting up the Report Message page.
  5. Click the Execute button to execute the job.
    The job is executed and the message is sent to the client.

When the job is received at the destination client, a message dialog box opens. Up to ten message dialog boxes are simultaneously displayed according to the order in which the message is received by clients. For details about how to check messages at clients, see 2.13.3 Displaying messages sent from the administrator in the manual Description and Planning Guide.